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Gutmann, who is leaving the University of Pennsylvania after 17 years as president, worked to better integrate Penn into the West Philadelphia community,.
Penn extends terms of Education and Law deans Pam Grossman, dean of the Graduate School of Education, and Ted Ruger, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, have had their terms extended through 2023.
The terms of two deans at the University of Pennsylvania have been extended.
“As we continue to chart our recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, we are especially pleased to recognize Pam’s and Ted’s many impressive achievements as deans of Penn’s education and law schools,” Gutmann and Pritchett said in making the announcement.
“Pam’s inspiring vision, inclusive style, and strategic approach over these past six-plus years have led Penn GSE to preeminence,” Gutmann and Pritchett said. “We particularly salute Pam’s compassionate, empathetic and warm leadership, which has been on particular display this past year, and her close collaborative work with all members of the GSE community.”
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Philadelphia’s school buildings are a tribute to its past.
That’s true of the structures themselves, some of which date back over a century.
But it’s also a nod to the people commemorated in the names of those school buildings. Those names in ways big and small help tell the city’s history.
The vast majority of public schools in the city are named after white men. (The school-namers of yore were partial to Union Civil War soldiers and former school board officials.)
Still, in a city that didn’t have a statue of a Black person on public land until 2017, school buildings are among the rare public spaces with any echo of Philadelphia’s Black history.